Thursday, May 16, 2013

ICE FACTORY'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

The Ice Factory has just announced the lineup for their 2013 series, and we think it look very promising!Ice Factory runs June 26 - August 3, 2013 at the New Ohio Theater.

June 26–29THE ASSEMBLY THAT POOR DREAM Created by the company, written by Stephen Aubrey, directed by Jess Chayes Set entirely on a MetroNorth train traveling from New York City to Fairfield, Connecticut, THAT POOR DREAM draws on the company’s own complex relationship to class identity and economic disparity in American society. Inspired by Great Expectations, Charles Dickens’s classic novel about coming of age in a profoundly class-conscious society. MORE
July 3–6SIGHTLINE MY MACHINE IS POWERED BY CLOCKS Written by B. Walker Sampson, directed by Matt Stone and Calla Videt, and choreographed by Jeff and Rick Kuperman Imagine the day when time travel is a common thing. When a future can be seen and a past, changed. But everything is stacked upon everything else. Maybe you can escape your own time, but you may lose focus. You may even forget who you are.July 10–13THE MAD ONES UNTITLED BIOPIC PROJECT Created by The Mad Ones A hallucinatory meditation on 1960s folk rock culture and the confines of motel room 118. From the creators of the acclaimed Drama Desk Nominated Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War and The Tremendous Tremendous. This is the final installment of their Performer Trilogy.July 17–20COLLABORATIONTOWN HELP ME TO MAKE IT Written and created by Boo Killebrew, Geoffrey Decas O'Donnell, and Jordan Seavey, directed by Lee Sunday Evans, co-created with Lee Sunday Evans and TJ Witham Multiple generations struggle from inside the architecture of contemporary families, as questions arise about fidelity, sexuality, gender, and the myths created to help us comprehend. Personal moments of everyday existence add up to lifetimes of monumental compassion, devastating betrayal, and inevitable transformation.July 24–27BUILT FOR COLLAPSE RED WEDNESDAY Conceived by the company, written and directed by Sanaz Ghajarrahimi, and choreographed by Ben Hobbs Travel through 4700 years of weddings, wars, teahouses, gardens, and dinner parties in this operatic multi-media spectacle that unpacks the core issues between Iran, Western and global interests. Examines the struggles and dreams of a family born into war and revolution, asking: how will we continue forward in a world consumed by fire?July 31–August 3ANONYMOUS ENSEMBLE I LAND Created by the company Spend an evening on an island far from your daily lives – an island inhabited by your inner life. This meticulously crafted performance event investigates the evolution of our imagination as the audience is lead on an expedition into an uncharted terrain of commonplace fantasies and wildly improbable realities.